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have been discovered in the frozen tundras of Siberia 

 with the skin covered with wool and long hair. This 

 rhinoceros possessed two horns, which are preserved 

 in. the frozen earth. 



The '' woolly rhinoceros " must have inhabited 

 Kent and Norfolk in Pleistocene times, and at least 

 one specimen must have wandered along what is now 

 Fleet Street, and, dying there, left his bones to be 

 discovered in an excavation beneath the ' Daily 

 Chronicle ' office. 



To the horn of the rhinoceros were attributed 

 many medicinal and other virtues, though Topsell 

 says that they properly belonged to the horn of the 

 unicorn. 



In 1763 Dr. Brookes, writing of the horn of the 

 Indian rhinoceros, says: "When wine is poured therein 

 it will ferment and seem to boil, but when mixed 

 with poison it cleaves in two, which experiment has 

 been seen by thousands of people." John Evelyn 

 also wrote of a well in Italy which Avas kept sweet 

 by a rhinoceros' horn. 



The Hoksks : Equid^e. 

 The genus Equus includes the horse, asses and 

 zebras. These animals are thickly covered with 

 hair, the colour of which varies, but there is a 

 tendency to striping with black or dark brown. The 

 fore-limbs are supported on single toes which are 

 enclosed in horny hoofs. All the Equida3 have horn- 

 like projections on the inner surface of the fore-limbs, 

 but the horses are distinguished from the asses and 

 zebras by having these callosities, commonly called 



